# -*- Mode: cperl; cperl-indent-level: 4 -*- # $Id: Harness.pm,v 1.17 2001/09/07 06:20:29 schwern Exp $ package Test::Harness; require 5.004; use Exporter; use Benchmark; use Config; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION $Verbose $Switches $Have_Devel_Corestack $Curtest $Columns $verbose $switches @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK ); # Backwards compatibility for exportable variable names. *verbose = \$Verbose; *switches = \$Switches; $Have_Devel_Corestack = 0; $VERSION = 1.25; $ENV{HARNESS_ACTIVE} = 1; # Some experimental versions of OS/2 build have broken $? my $Ignore_Exitcode = $ENV{HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE}; my $Files_In_Dir = $ENV{HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR}; @ISA = ('Exporter'); @EXPORT = qw(&runtests); @EXPORT_OK = qw($verbose $switches); $Verbose = 0; $Switches = "-w"; $Columns = $ENV{HARNESS_COLUMNS} || $ENV{COLUMNS} || 80; $Columns--; # Some shells have trouble with a full line of text. =head1 NAME Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics =head1 SYNOPSIS use Test::Harness; runtests(@test_files); =head1 DESCRIPTION B If all you want to do is write a test script, consider using Test::Simple. Otherwise, read on. (By using the Test module, you can write test scripts without knowing the exact output this module expects. However, if you need to know the specifics, read on!) Perl test scripts print to standard output C<"ok N"> for each single test, where C is an increasing sequence of integers. The first line output by a standard test script is C<"1..M"> with C being the number of tests that should be run within the test script. Test::Harness::runtests(@tests) runs all the testscripts named as arguments and checks standard output for the expected C<"ok N"> strings. After all tests have been performed, runtests() prints some performance statistics that are computed by the Benchmark module. =head2 The test script output The following explains how Test::Harness interprets the output of your test program. =over 4 =item B<'1..M'> This header tells how many tests there will be. It should be the first line output by your test program (but its okay if its preceded by comments). In certain instanced, you may not know how many tests you will ultimately be running. In this case, it is permitted (but not encouraged) for the 1..M header to appear as the B line output by your test (again, it can be followed by further comments). But we strongly encourage you to put it first. Under B circumstances should 1..M appear in the middle of your output or more than once. =item B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?> Any output from the testscript to standard error is ignored and bypassed, thus will be seen by the user. Lines written to standard output containing C are interpreted as feedback for runtests(). All other lines are discarded. C indicates a failed test. C is a successful test. =item B Perl normally expects the 'ok' or 'not ok' to be followed by a test number. It is tolerated if the test numbers after 'ok' are omitted. In this case Test::Harness maintains temporarily its own counter until the script supplies test numbers again. So the following test script print < The global variable $Test::Harness::verbose is exportable and can be used to let runtests() display the standard output of the script without altering the behavior otherwise. =item B<$Test::Harness::switches> The global variable $Test::Harness::switches is exportable and can be used to set perl command line options used for running the test script(s). The default value is C<-w>. =item B If the standard output line contains the substring C< # Skip> (with variations in spacing and case) after C or C, it is counted as a skipped test. If the whole testscript succeeds, the count of skipped tests is included in the generated output. C reports the text after C< # Skip\S*\s+> as a reason for skipping. ok 23 # skip Insufficient flogiston pressure. Similarly, one can include a similar explanation in a C<1..0> line emitted if the test script is skipped completely: 1..0 # Skipped: no leverage found =item B If the standard output line contains the substring C< # TODO> after C or C, it is counted as a todo test. The text afterwards is the thing that has to be done before this test will succeed. not ok 13 # TODO harness the power of the atom These tests represent a feature to be implemented or a bug to be fixed and act as something of an executable "thing to do" list. They are B expected to succeed. Should a todo test begin succeeding, Test::Harness will report it as a bonus. This indicates that whatever you were supposed to do has been done and you should promote this to a normal test. =item B As an emergency measure, a test script can decide that further tests are useless (e.g. missing dependencies) and testing should stop immediately. In that case the test script prints the magic words Bail out! to standard output. Any message after these words will be displayed by C as the reason why testing is stopped. =item B Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines. Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them. ok 1 # Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap. not ok 2 # got 'Bush' expected 'Gore' =item B Any other output Test::Harness sees it will silently ignore B If you wish to place additional output in your test script, please use a comment. =back =head2 Failure It will happen, your tests will fail. After you mop up your ego, you can begin examining the summary report: t/base..............ok t/nonumbers.........ok t/ok................ok t/test-harness......ok t/waterloo..........dubious Test returned status 3 (wstat 768, 0x300) DIED. FAILED tests 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Failed 10/20 tests, 50.00% okay Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ----------------------------------------------------------------------- t/waterloo.t 3 768 20 10 50.00% 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 Failed 1/5 test scripts, 80.00% okay. 10/44 subtests failed, 77.27% okay. Everything passed but t/waterloo.t. It failed 10 of 20 tests and exited with non-zero status indicating something dubious happened. The columns in the summary report mean: =over 4 =item B The test file which failed. =item B If the test exited with non-zero, this is its exit status. =item B The wait status of the test I. =item B Total number of tests expected to run. =item B Number which failed, either from "not ok" or because they never ran. =item B Percentage of the total tests which failed. =item B A list of the tests which failed. Successive failures may be abbreviated (ie. 15-20 to indicate that tests 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 failed). =back =head2 Functions Test::Harness currently only has one function, here it is. =over 4 =item B my $allok = runtests(@test_files); This runs all the given @test_files and divines whether they passed or failed based on their output to STDOUT (details above). It prints out each individual test which failed along with a summary report and a how long it all took. It returns true if everything was ok, false otherwise. =for _private This is just _run_all_tests() plus _show_results() =cut sub runtests { my(@tests) = @_; local ($\, $,); my($tot, $failedtests) = _run_all_tests(@tests); _show_results($tot, $failedtests); my $ok = _all_ok($tot); die q{Assert '$ok xor keys %$failedtests' failed!} unless $ok xor keys %$failedtests; return $ok; } =begin _private =item B<_all_ok> my $ok = _all_ok(\%tot); Tells you if this test run is overall successful or not. =cut sub _all_ok { my($tot) = shift; return $tot->{bad} == 0 && ($tot->{max} || $tot->{skipped}) ? 1 : 0; } =item B<_globdir> my @files = _globdir $dir; Returns all the files in a directory. This is shorthand for backwards compatibility on systems where glob() doesn't work right. =cut sub _globdir { opendir DIRH, shift; my @f = readdir DIRH; closedir DIRH; return @f; } =item B<_run_all_tests> my($total, $failed) = _run_all_tests(@test_files); Runs all the given @test_files (as runtests()) but does it quietly (no report). $total is a hash ref summary of all the tests run. Its keys and values are this: bonus Number of individual todo tests unexpectedly passed max Number of individual tests ran ok Number of individual tests passed sub_skipped Number of individual tests skipped todo Number of individual todo tests files Number of test files ran good Number of test files passed bad Number of test files failed tests Number of test files originally given skipped Number of test files skipped If $total->{bad} == 0 and $total->{max} > 0, you've got a successful test. $failed is a hash ref of all the test scripts which failed. Each key is the name of a test script, each value is another hash representing how that script failed. Its keys are these: name Name of the test which failed estat Script's exit value wstat Script's wait status max Number of individual tests failed Number which failed percent Percentage of tests which failed canon List of tests which failed (as string). Needless to say, $failed should be empty if everything passed. B Currently this function is still noisy. I'm working on it. =cut sub _run_all_tests { my(@tests) = @_; local($|) = 1; my(%failedtests); # Test-wide totals. my(%tot) = ( bonus => 0, max => 0, ok => 0, files => 0, bad => 0, good => 0, tests => scalar @tests, sub_skipped => 0, todo => 0, skipped => 0, bench => 0, ); # pass -I flags to children my $old5lib = $ENV{PERL5LIB}; # VMS has a 255-byte limit on the length of %ENV entries, so # toss the ones that involve perl_root, the install location # for VMS my $new5lib; if ($^O eq 'VMS') { $new5lib = join($Config{path_sep}, grep {!/perl_root/i;} @INC); $Switches =~ s/-(\S*[A-Z]\S*)/"-$1"/g; } else { $new5lib = join($Config{path_sep}, @INC); } local($ENV{'PERL5LIB'}) = $new5lib; my @dir_files = _globdir $Files_In_Dir if defined $Files_In_Dir; my $t_start = new Benchmark; my $maxlen = 0; my $maxsuflen = 0; foreach (@tests) { # The same code in t/TEST my $suf = /\.(\w+)$/ ? $1 : ''; my $len = length; my $suflen = length $suf; $maxlen = $len if $len > $maxlen; $maxsuflen = $suflen if $suflen > $maxsuflen; } # + 3 : we want three dots between the test name and the "ok" my $width = $maxlen + 3 - $maxsuflen; foreach my $tfile (@tests) { my($leader, $ml) = _mk_leader($tfile, $width); print $leader; my $fh = _open_test($tfile); # state of the current test. my %test = ( ok => 0, 'next' => 0, max => 0, failed => [], todo => {}, bonus => 0, skipped => 0, skip_reason => undef, ml => $ml, ); my($seen_header, $tests_seen) = (0,0); while (<$fh>) { if( _parse_header($_, \%test, \%tot) ) { warn "Test header seen twice!\n" if $seen_header; $seen_header = 1; warn "1..M can only appear at the beginning or end of tests\n" if $tests_seen && $test{max} < $tests_seen; } elsif( _parse_test_line($_, \%test, \%tot) ) { $tests_seen++; } # else, ignore it. } my($estatus, $wstatus) = _close_fh($fh); my $allok = $test{ok} == $test{max} && $test{'next'} == $test{max}+1; if ($wstatus) { $failedtests{$tfile} = _dubious_return(\%test, \%tot, $estatus, $wstatus); $failedtests{$tfile}{name} = $tfile; } elsif ($allok) { if ($test{max} and $test{skipped} + $test{bonus}) { my @msg; push(@msg, "$test{skipped}/$test{max} skipped: $test{skip_reason}") if $test{skipped}; push(@msg, "$test{bonus}/$test{max} unexpectedly succeeded") if $test{bonus}; print "$test{ml}ok, ".join(', ', @msg)."\n"; } elsif ($test{max}) { print "$test{ml}ok\n"; } elsif (defined $test{skip_reason}) { print "skipped: $test{skip_reason}\n"; $tot{skipped}++; } else { print "skipped test on this platform\n"; $tot{skipped}++; } $tot{good}++; } else { if ($test{max}) { if ($test{'next'} <= $test{max}) { push @{$test{failed}}, $test{'next'}..$test{max}; } if (@{$test{failed}}) { my ($txt, $canon) = canonfailed($test{max},$test{skipped}, @{$test{failed}}); print "$test{ml}$txt"; $failedtests{$tfile} = { canon => $canon, max => $test{max}, failed => scalar @{$test{failed}}, name => $tfile, percent => 100*(scalar @{$test{failed}})/$test{max}, estat => '', wstat => '', }; } else { print "Don't know which tests failed: got $test{ok} ok, ". "expected $test{max}\n"; $failedtests{$tfile} = { canon => '??', max => $test{max}, failed => '??', name => $tfile, percent => undef, estat => '', wstat => '', }; } $tot{bad}++; } elsif ($test{'next'} == 0) { print "FAILED before any test output arrived\n"; $tot{bad}++; $failedtests{$tfile} = { canon => '??', max => '??', failed => '??', name => $tfile, percent => undef, estat => '', wstat => '', }; } } $tot{sub_skipped} += $test{skipped}; if (defined $Files_In_Dir) { my @new_dir_files = _globdir $Files_In_Dir; if (@new_dir_files != @dir_files) { my %f; @f{@new_dir_files} = (1) x @new_dir_files; delete @f{@dir_files}; my @f = sort keys %f; print "LEAKED FILES: @f\n"; @dir_files = @new_dir_files; } } } $tot{bench} = timediff(new Benchmark, $t_start); if ($^O eq 'VMS') { if (defined $old5lib) { $ENV{PERL5LIB} = $old5lib; } else { delete $ENV{PERL5LIB}; } } return(\%tot, \%failedtests); } =item B<_mk_leader> my($leader, $ml) = _mk_leader($test_file, $width); Generates the 't/foo........' $leader for the given $test_file as well as a similar version which will overwrite the current line (by use of \r and such). $ml may be empty if Test::Harness doesn't think you're on TTY. The $width is the width of the "yada/blah.." string. =cut sub _mk_leader { my($te, $width) = @_; chomp($te); $te =~ s/\.\w+$/./; if ($^O eq 'VMS') { $te =~ s/^.*\.t\./\[.t./s; } my $blank = (' ' x 77); my $leader = "$te" . '.' x ($width - length($te)); my $ml = ""; $ml = "\r$blank\r$leader" if -t STDOUT and not $ENV{HARNESS_NOTTY} and not $Verbose; return($leader, $ml); } sub _show_results { my($tot, $failedtests) = @_; my $pct; my $bonusmsg = _bonusmsg($tot); if (_all_ok($tot)) { print "All tests successful$bonusmsg.\n"; } elsif (!$tot->{tests}){ die "FAILED--no tests were run for some reason.\n"; } elsif (!$tot->{max}) { my $blurb = $tot->{tests}==1 ? "script" : "scripts"; die "FAILED--$tot->{tests} test $blurb could be run, ". "alas--no output ever seen\n"; } else { $pct = sprintf("%.2f", $tot->{good} / $tot->{tests} * 100); my $percent_ok = 100*$tot->{ok}/$tot->{max}; my $subpct = sprintf " %d/%d subtests failed, %.2f%% okay.", $tot->{max} - $tot->{ok}, $tot->{max}, $percent_ok; my($fmt_top, $fmt) = _create_fmts($failedtests); # Now write to formats for my $script (sort keys %$failedtests) { $Curtest = $failedtests->{$script}; write; } if ($tot->{bad}) { $bonusmsg =~ s/^,\s*//; print "$bonusmsg.\n" if $bonusmsg; die "Failed $tot->{bad}/$tot->{tests} test scripts, $pct% okay.". "$subpct\n"; } } printf("Files=%d, Tests=%d, %s\n", $tot->{files}, $tot->{max}, timestr($tot->{bench}, 'nop')); } sub _parse_header { my($line, $test, $tot) = @_; my $is_header = 0; print $line if $Verbose; # 1..10 todo 4 7 10; if ($line =~ /^1\.\.([0-9]+) todo([\d\s]+);?/i) { $test->{max} = $1; for (split(/\s+/, $2)) { $test->{todo}{$_} = 1; } $tot->{max} += $test->{max}; $tot->{files}++; $is_header = 1; } # 1..10 # 1..0 # skip Why? Because I said so! elsif ($line =~ /^1\.\.([0-9]+) (\s*\#\s*[Ss]kip\S*\s* (.+))? /x ) { $test->{max} = $1; $tot->{max} += $test->{max}; $tot->{files}++; $test->{'next'} = 1 unless $test->{'next'}; $test->{skip_reason} = $3 if not $test->{max} and defined $3; $is_header = 1; } else { $is_header = 0; } return $is_header; } sub _open_test { my($test) = shift; my $s = _set_switches($test); # XXX This is WAY too core specific! my $cmd = ($ENV{'HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST'}) ? "./perl -I../lib ../utils/perlcc $test " . "-r 2>> ./compilelog |" : "$^X $s $test|"; $cmd = "MCR $cmd" if $^O eq 'VMS'; if( open(PERL, $cmd) ) { return \*PERL; } else { print "can't run $test. $!\n"; return; } } sub _run_one_test { my($test) = @_; } sub _parse_test_line { my($line, $test, $tot) = @_; if ($line =~ /^(not\s+)?ok\b/i) { $test->{'next'} ||= 1; my $this = $test->{'next'}; # "not ok 23" if ($line =~ /^(not )?ok\s*(\d*)[^#]*(\s*#.*)?/) { my($not, $tnum, $extra) = ($1, $2, $3); $this = $tnum if $tnum; my($type, $reason) = $extra =~ /^\s*#\s*([Ss]kip\S*|TODO)(\s+.+)?/ if defined $extra; my($istodo, $isskip); if( defined $type ) { $istodo = 1 if $type =~ /TODO/; $isskip = 1 if $type =~ /skip/i; } $test->{todo}{$this} = 1 if $istodo; $tot->{todo}++ if $test->{todo}{$this}; if( $not ) { print "$test->{ml}NOK $this" if $test->{ml}; if (!$test->{todo}{$this}) { push @{$test->{failed}}, $this; } else { $test->{ok}++; $tot->{ok}++; } } else { print "$test->{ml}ok $this/$test->{max}" if $test->{ml}; $test->{ok}++; $tot->{ok}++; $test->{skipped}++ if $isskip; $reason = '[no reason given]' if $isskip and not defined $reason; if (defined $reason and defined $test->{skip_reason}) { # print "was: '$skip_reason' new '$reason'\n"; $test->{skip_reason} = 'various reasons' if $test->{skip_reason} ne $reason; } elsif (defined $reason) { $test->{skip_reason} = $reason; } $test->{bonus}++, $tot->{bonus}++ if $test->{todo}{$this}; } } # XXX ummm... dunno elsif ($line =~ /^ok\s*(\d*)\s*\#([^\r]*)$/) { # XXX multiline ok? $this = $1 if $1 > 0; print "$test->{ml}ok $this/$test->{max}" if $test->{ml}; $test->{ok}++; $tot->{ok}++; } else { # an ok or not ok not matching the 3 cases above... # just ignore it for compatibility with TEST next; } if ($this > $test->{'next'}) { print "Test output counter mismatch [test $this]\n"; push @{$test->{failed}}, $test->{'next'}..$this-1; } elsif ($this < $test->{'next'}) { #we have seen more "ok" lines than the number suggests print "Confused test output: test $this answered after ". "test ", $test->{'next'}-1, "\n"; $test->{'next'} = $this; } $test->{'next'} = $this + 1; } elsif ($line =~ /^Bail out!\s*(.*)/i) { # magic words die "FAILED--Further testing stopped" . ($1 ? ": $1\n" : ".\n"); } } sub _bonusmsg { my($tot) = @_; my $bonusmsg = ''; $bonusmsg = (" ($tot->{bonus} subtest".($tot->{bonus} > 1 ? 's' : ''). " UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED)") if $tot->{bonus}; if ($tot->{skipped}) { $bonusmsg .= ", $tot->{skipped} test" . ($tot->{skipped} != 1 ? 's' : ''); if ($tot->{sub_skipped}) { $bonusmsg .= " and $tot->{sub_skipped} subtest" . ($tot->{sub_skipped} != 1 ? 's' : ''); } $bonusmsg .= ' skipped'; } elsif ($tot->{sub_skipped}) { $bonusmsg .= ", $tot->{sub_skipped} subtest" . ($tot->{sub_skipped} != 1 ? 's' : '') . " skipped"; } return $bonusmsg; } # VMS has some subtle nastiness with closing the test files. sub _close_fh { my($fh) = shift; close($fh); # must close to reap child resource values my $wstatus = $Ignore_Exitcode ? 0 : $?; # Can trust $? ? my $estatus; $estatus = ($^O eq 'VMS' ? eval 'use vmsish "status"; $estatus = $?' : $wstatus >> 8); return($estatus, $wstatus); } # Set up the command-line switches to run perl as. sub _set_switches { my($test) = shift; local *TEST; open(TEST, $test) or print "can't open $test. $!\n"; my $first = ; my $s = $Switches; $s .= " $ENV{'HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES'}" if exists $ENV{'HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES'}; $s .= join " ", q[ "-T"], map {qq["-I$_"]} @INC if $first =~ /^#!.*\bperl.*-\w*T/; close(TEST) or print "can't close $test. $!\n"; return $s; } # Test program go boom. sub _dubious_return { my($test, $tot, $estatus, $wstatus) = @_; my ($failed, $canon, $percent) = ('??', '??'); printf "$test->{ml}dubious\n\tTest returned status $estatus ". "(wstat %d, 0x%x)\n", $wstatus,$wstatus; print "\t\t(VMS status is $estatus)\n" if $^O eq 'VMS'; if (corestatus($wstatus)) { # until we have a wait module if ($Have_Devel_Corestack) { Devel::CoreStack::stack($^X); } else { print "\ttest program seems to have generated a core\n"; } } $tot->{bad}++; if ($test->{max}) { if ($test->{'next'} == $test->{max} + 1 and not @{$test->{failed}}) { print "\tafter all the subtests completed successfully\n"; $percent = 0; $failed = 0; # But we do not set $canon! } else { push @{$test->{failed}}, $test->{'next'}..$test->{max}; $failed = @{$test->{failed}}; (my $txt, $canon) = canonfailed($test->{max},$test->{skipped},@{$test->{failed}}); $percent = 100*(scalar @{$test->{failed}})/$test->{max}; print "DIED. ",$txt; } } return { canon => $canon, max => $test->{max} || '??', failed => $failed, percent => $percent, estat => $estatus, wstat => $wstatus, }; } sub _garbled_output { my($gibberish) = shift; warn "Confusing test output: '$gibberish'\n"; } sub _create_fmts { my($failedtests) = @_; my $failed_str = "Failed Test"; my $middle_str = " Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed "; my $list_str = "List of Failed"; # Figure out our longest name string for formatting purposes. my $max_namelen = length($failed_str); foreach my $script (keys %$failedtests) { my $namelen = length $failedtests->{$script}->{name}; $max_namelen = $namelen if $namelen > $max_namelen; } my $list_len = $Columns - length($middle_str) - $max_namelen; if ($list_len < length($list_str)) { $list_len = length($list_str); $max_namelen = $Columns - length($middle_str) - $list_len; if ($max_namelen < length($failed_str)) { $max_namelen = length($failed_str); $Columns = $max_namelen + length($middle_str) + $list_len; } } my $fmt_top = "format STDOUT_TOP =\n" . sprintf("%-${max_namelen}s", $failed_str) . $middle_str . $list_str . "\n" . "-" x $Columns . "\n.\n"; my $fmt = "format STDOUT =\n" . "@" . "<" x ($max_namelen - 1) . " @>> @>>>> @>>>> @>>> ^##.##% " . "^" . "<" x ($list_len - 1) . "\n" . '{ $Curtest->{name}, $Curtest->{estat},' . ' $Curtest->{wstat}, $Curtest->{max},' . ' $Curtest->{failed}, $Curtest->{percent},' . ' $Curtest->{canon}' . "\n}\n" . "~~" . " " x ($Columns - $list_len - 2) . "^" . "<" x ($list_len - 1) . "\n" . '$Curtest->{canon}' . "\n.\n"; eval $fmt_top; die $@ if $@; eval $fmt; die $@ if $@; return($fmt_top, $fmt); } { my $tried_devel_corestack; sub corestatus { my($st) = @_; eval {require 'wait.ph'}; my $ret = defined &WCOREDUMP ? WCOREDUMP($st) : $st & 0200; eval { require Devel::CoreStack; $Have_Devel_Corestack++ } unless $tried_devel_corestack++; $ret; } } sub canonfailed ($@) { my($max,$skipped,@failed) = @_; my %seen; @failed = sort {$a <=> $b} grep !$seen{$_}++, @failed; my $failed = @failed; my @result = (); my @canon = (); my $min; my $last = $min = shift @failed; my $canon; if (@failed) { for (@failed, $failed[-1]) { # don't forget the last one if ($_ > $last+1 || $_ == $last) { if ($min == $last) { push @canon, $last; } else { push @canon, "$min-$last"; } $min = $_; } $last = $_; } local $" = ", "; push @result, "FAILED tests @canon\n"; $canon = join ' ', @canon; } else { push @result, "FAILED test $last\n"; $canon = $last; } push @result, "\tFailed $failed/$max tests, "; push @result, sprintf("%.2f",100*(1-$failed/$max)), "% okay"; my $ender = 's' x ($skipped > 1); my $good = $max - $failed - $skipped; my $goodper = sprintf("%.2f",100*($good/$max)); push @result, " (-$skipped skipped test$ender: $good okay, ". "$goodper%)" if $skipped; push @result, "\n"; my $txt = join "", @result; ($txt, $canon); } =end _private =back =cut 1; __END__ =head1 EXPORT C<&runtests> is exported by Test::Harness per default. C<$verbose> and C<$switches> are exported upon request. =head1 DIAGNOSTICS =over 4 =item C If all tests are successful some statistics about the performance are printed. =item C For any single script that has failing subtests statistics like the above are printed. =item C Scripts that return a non-zero exit status, both C<$? EE 8> and C<$?> are printed in a message similar to the above. =item C =item C If not all tests were successful, the script dies with one of the above messages. =item C If a single subtest decides that further testing will not make sense, the script dies with this message. =back =head1 ENVIRONMENT =over 4 =item C Makes harness ignore the exit status of child processes when defined. =item C When set to a true value, forces it to behave as though STDOUT were not a console. You may need to set this if you don't want harness to output more frequent progress messages using carriage returns. Some consoles may not handle carriage returns properly (which results in a somewhat messy output). =item C When true it will make harness attempt to compile the test using C before running it. B This currently only works when sitting in the perl source directory! =item C When set to the name of a directory, harness will check after each test whether new files appeared in that directory, and report them as LEAKED FILES: scr.tmp 0 my.db If relative, directory name is with respect to the current directory at the moment runtests() was called. Putting absolute path into C may give more predicatable results. =item C Its value will be prepended to the switches used to invoke perl on each test. For example, setting C to C<-W> will run all tests with all warnings enabled. =item C This value will be used for the width of the terminal. If it is not set then it will default to C. If this is not set, it will default to 80. Note that users of Bourne-sh based shells will need to C for this module to use that variable. =item C Harness sets this before executing the individual tests. This allows the tests to determine if they are being executed through the harness or by any other means. =back =head1 EXAMPLE Here's how Test::Harness tests itself $ cd ~/src/devel/Test-Harness $ perl -Mblib -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t Using /home/schwern/src/devel/Test-Harness/blib t/base..............ok t/nonumbers.........ok t/ok................ok t/test-harness......ok All tests successful. Files=4, Tests=24, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.61 cusr + 0.41 csys = 1.02 CPU) =head1 SEE ALSO L and L for writing test scripts, L for the underlying timing routines, L to generate core dumps from failed tests and L for test coverage analysis. =head1 AUTHORS Either Tim Bunce or Andreas Koenig, we don't know. What we know for sure is, that it was inspired by Larry Wall's TEST script that came with perl distributions for ages. Numerous anonymous contributors exist. Andreas Koenig held the torch for many years. Current maintainer is Michael G Schwern Eschwern@pobox.comE =head1 TODO Provide a way of running tests quietly (ie. no printing) for automated validation of tests. This will probably take the form of a version of runtests() which rather than printing its output returns raw data on the state of the tests. Fix HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST without breaking its core usage. Figure a way to report test names in the failure summary. Rework the test summary so long test names are not truncated as badly. Merge back into bleadperl. Deal with VMS's "not \nok 4\n" mistake. Add option for coverage analysis. =for _private Keeping whittling away at _run_all_tests() =for _private Clean up how the summary is printed. Get rid of those damned formats. =head1 BUGS Test::Harness uses $^X to determine the perl binary to run the tests with. Test scripts running via the shebang (C<#!>) line may not be portable because $^X is not consistent for shebang scripts across platforms. This is no problem when Test::Harness is run with an absolute path to the perl binary or when $^X can be found in the path. HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST currently assumes its run from the Perl source directory. =cut